TRAVEL Act of 2025
- Last Action
- 9/16/2025
Actions
- 2025-09-16Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
- 2025-09-15Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 2025-09-15On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 371 - 21 (Roll no. 266). (text: CR H4284)
- 2025-09-15Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 371 - 21 (Roll no. 266). (text: CR H4284: 1)
- 2025-09-15Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H4300)
- 2025-09-15At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
- 2025-09-15DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3400.
- 2025-09-15Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H4284)
- 2025-09-15Mr. Bost moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 2025-09-10Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 219.
- 2025-09-10Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.
- 2025-09-10Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. H. Rept. 119-263.
- 2025-07-23Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
- 2025-07-23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 2025-07-03Subcommittee on Health Discharged
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CRS Summary
As of 2025-05-14 (00)
The Territorial Response and Access to Veterans' Essential Lifecare Act or the TRAVEL Act of 2025
This bill authorizes the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assign a physician who has been appointed in the Veterans Health Administration to serve as a traveling physician for a period of not more than one year. Such physician must provide health care to veterans at VA facilities located in American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States.
Traveling physicians must coordinate with non-VA providers when necessary to ensure high quality and coordinated care for veterans receiving hospital care and medical services.
The VA must provide a relocation or retention bonus to traveling physicians.
Cosponsors (12)
- James Moylan (R-GU)
- Aumua Amata Radewagen (R-AS)
- Rashida Tlaib (D-MI)
- Jill Tokuda (D-HI)
- Marilyn Strickland (D-WA)
- Sarah McBride (D-DE)
- Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA)
- Danny Davis (D-IL)
- Eugene Vindman (D-VA)
- Pablo Hernández (D-PR)
- Susie Lee (D-NV)
- Ed Case (D-HI)
Subjects
- American Samoa
- Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management
- Guam
- Health personnel
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Puerto Rico
- Travel and tourism
- U.S. territories and protectorates
- Veterans' medical care
- Virgin Islands
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